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5 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Kirn a.d. Nahe (City of Kirn on the Nahe) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 000 000 Marks (5 000 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Millionen Stadt Kirn a.d.Nahe Gutschein über Fünf Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein ist ein gültiges Zahlungsmittel. Der Zeitpunkt, mit dem der Schein seine Gültigkeit verliert, wird öffentlich bekannt gemacht. Kirn 25. August 1923. Der Bürgermeister : Gutscheine ohne Stempel des Bürgermeisteramts der Stadt Kirn haben keine Gültigkeit. (Translation: 5 million City of Kirn a.d. Nahe Voucher for five million marks This voucher is a valid means of payment. The time at which the note loses its validity will be publicly announced. Kirn, August 25, 1923. The Mayor: Vouchers without the stamp of the mayor's office of the city of Kirn are not valid.) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Kirn is a small town in the Nahe valley of Rhineland-Palatinate, and this five-million mark note is a product of the German hyperinflation peak of 1923 — a period when municipal governments across Germany were legally authorized to print their own emergency currency, known as Notgeld, simply to keep local commerce functioning. The Reichsbank could not produce denominations fast enough to match inflation that was, by autumn 1923, doubling prices every few days.
Fr. Melsbach in nearby Sobernheim was a regional commercial printer pressed into monetary service. The official stamp is the only security measure — which says everything about how briefly these notes were expected to remain relevant.